“The Biopolitics of Animation: Global Health and Sponsored Films in the Postwar Era.” Solicited chapter for David Cantor, Anja Laukötter, and Christian Bonah, eds., Communicating Good Health (in press, University of Rochester Press).

Kirsten Ostherr, “Cinema as Universal Language of Health Education: Translating Science in Unhooking the Hookworm (1920).” Solicited book chapter for Nancy Anderson and Michael Dietrich, eds., The Educated Eye: Visual Culture and Pedagogy in the Life Sciences. University Press of New England.

Kirsten Ostherr, “Medical Education Through Film: Animating Anatomy at the American College of Surgeons and Eastman Kodak.” Dan Streible, Devin Orgeron, and Marsha Orgeron, eds., Learning with the Lights Off: A Reader in Educational Film. Oxford University Press (2012).

"“Hacking the Silos.” ." Of Two Minds: Bringing Together the Sciences and Humanities Symposium, University of California, Davis. (May 2014)

“Can Movies Make Us Healthier?” TEDx Houston, TX

Kirsten Ostherr, “Going Viral: Visualizing Contagion and Pathology in Hollywood and Public Health Films, 1922 to 2010.” Samuel G. Dunn Lectureship in Medicine and the Humanities, Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX

Keynote Speaker. "Picturing a Cure: Public Health Films in the Global Fight Against Communicable Diseases." Global Health Histories Symposium, History of Medicine Division of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. (Nov. 2005)

"Picturing a Cure: Public Health Films in the Global Fight Against Communicable Diseases." Global Health Histories/National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health/Bethesda, MD. (Nov. 2005)

Panel Chair and Commentator. "“With His Camera in His Hand: Filmmaker Jim Mendiola’s Contingencies of History and Identity in Come and Take it Day.”." Western Literature Association, Houston, TX. (November 2003)

Posters

"“Can We Do Better? Use of Information and Communication Technologies in End-of-Life Care” ." American Public Health Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA. (Nov. 2014)

Seminar Speaker

"“Bringing the Patient Voice to Medical Education: Digital Tools for Storytelling.” ." ANES 204, “Medical Education in the New Millennium,” Stanford University School of Medicine , (Oct. 2014) With Bryan Vartabedian

Rockefeller Archive Center, Scholar-in-Residence Research Grant Award. Award of $5,000 for one month's residency to conduct archival research., Pocantico Hills, NY. (July 2004)Outside competitive research support for early stages of preparing manuscript for second book project.